09/11/2009

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcSxL8GUn-g?wmode=transparent] I showed this clip at the beginning of my recent show/talk at Hub Westminster.  I've since watched this episode all the way through, it still thrills me.  Is this what watching @ProfBrianCox does for people these days?  I hope so.  There's a few things to say about it. 1.  I love the subtitle: "An…

Here’s me, frowning into the sun at Austin Amtrak station.  I wasn’t really that frowny, just had the sun in my eyes.  I wasn’t as euphoric as I had been exactly 1 year earlier though either.  Then I was humming “Homeward Bound” to myself.  This time I knew I was only just half way through…

Life in the metaverse – 30 days in ActiveWorlds. Shows us a demo of ActiveWorlds with lots of caveats about the clunkiness of the interface and the cheesiness of the music. He walks around the world and meets people. The default avatar for people who haven’t paid sucks and people who have paid aren’t very…

My personal heady mix of pride, stubbornness and avoidance combine to make this a difficult thing to write, but I need some pretty specific help over the next week. I have to move out of my flat by next Sunday 18th May. I have a couple of options on where I can stay after that…

I was always told “You don’t go looking in ladies’ handbags, you never know what you might find” which seemed more of a temptation to me than a discouragement. And in that spirit, today I’m going to open up my one-man social media empire bag and let you know exactly what’s in it. First an…

Tomorrow afternoon, I’ll stroll down to Soho for a New Media Knowledge event at zero-one. “The trust people put in blogs, their simplicity and interactive character, and their ability to be aggregated via RSS have combined to grant blogs a unique status in the communications spectrum. This event will examine the increasing importance and influence…